Have you ever successfully used this feature?

We are about to remove a feature that @LaFayette and I consider "not working most of the time".
If you ever tried hosting a game on your own, you probably came across Port-forwarding. In order to enable TripleA to communicate through your Firewall you need to setup special Rules on your local Router.
If this rule was not setup properly, TripleA will tell you that your PC is not reachable from the Internet and offer you to try adding this Rule automatically. The question is if this automatic Rule-adding ever worked out-of-the box for you.
If you never tried hosting a game on your own, I highly want to encourage you to try it for testing purposes and vote what your result was int the Poll above.
Steps:

Open TripleA

Join The Lobby

Click Host Game

Wait for an error message to pop up telling you your computer is not reachable and click 'OK'

Press 'Yes' if you are asked if TripleA should try setting port forwarding with UPnP

@prastle What makes me suspicious: What exactly do you mean by "all the time"?
(This feature would normally only be used once per router or after a router reset).
Do you really mean the UPnP feature or do you just mean the host game option?

@prastle Is UPnP enabled by default though? If it isn't you'd have to login into your routers webinterface anyways.

There are several problems of UPnP which are basically security issues.
UPnP doesn't know what authentification is, so every device could access and modify your routers settings without any restrictions, which would normally require at least a password.
That's why UPnP is considered insecure.

UPnP+ seems to be a better "version", but is barely supported as it's a relatively new standard (2015), so it doesn't seem to be a better option...

@roiex I know this topic is old already, but I was one of two yes votes a while back. Just wanted to say I find the port forward program extremely useful. In my case, I connect via wifi and my router is not easily accessible, thus in order to manually configure it is a huge hassle for me. I'm sure there are others out there who use it and find it helpful, but just never came across this topic.

I would greatly appreciate if you brought the port forwarding program back in the new releases. Or point me to a link where I can download the program. Thank you in advance
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@general_zod While we're probably not going to add this feature back, there are alternatives for you to keep having simple access: I found this and this other program which might do the same job, you just need to enter the port you configured manually.
There are probably other tools out there that do the same thing as well.

@roiex I'll give this a try, the next time my router reconfigures itself. The description for "Simple Port Forwarding" program looks like it's simple enough to do, without me inadvertantly exposing my computer to unnecesary security risks. I hope.

However, I'm running the worst windows ever. So the above may not be compatible with win10.

Anyways, I can still get it done with .3635. If I login to lobby with .3635, and use the port forward program from there to set my router. Then close lobby and re-open lobby with the new release.

Bringing this old topic again. You offered to write a script last time.

@prastle and I would appreciate if you can write us a script, to activate the port forwarding on wifi routers which can not be easily accessed by hard wired connections. So we don't have to launch 3635 to do it.

upnp.zip@General_Zod This should work for you. This is basically the old TripleA code copy pasted, so if any text seems weird to you, you know why.
If you experience any bugs with this, please let me know.

EDIT:
Note to myself in case I ever want to make this tool more than a dirty hack: Use Gradle + Maven